Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

Zygmunt Bauman — Polish Sociologist born on November 19, 1925,

Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist. He has resided in England since 1971 after being driven out of Poland by an anti-semitic campaign engineered by the Communist government. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, Bauman is one of the world's most eminent social theorists writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity... (wikipedia)

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

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